SharePoint Online – New SharePoint Online administration portal

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A new SharePoint Online administration portal is being deployed; as usual available first for First Release tenants. A link (Try the new SharePoint admin center preview – pointing to https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx) to the new SharePoint Online administration portal will be shown (when available) from the current SPO administration portal If you want to give a […]

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Intune – You can now assign mobile app to all users

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A new option has been his apparition on the Intune management portal when assigning applications. You can now assign an application as available to all users with enrolled devices; you do not need anymore to assign it to a group At the time of writing this post, this option is only available for Microsoft Store

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Azure – Azure Application Proxy now supports wildcards

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You may already know the Azure Application Proxy (or Azure App Proxy or AAP), used to publish internal web applications to the external world without opening communication ports on the firewall and which can be used to leverage Azure AD for authentication and SSO. Now, Azure App Proxy supports wildcards to publish multiple web application

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Azure/Office 365 – Azure AD is now getting Administrative Units capabilities

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An update is currently being deployed (first for First release tenant) to provide Administrative Units (AU) capabilities to Azure AD. AU capabilities are basically the equivalent of the Organizational Unit on Active Directory. This is going to deliver better delegated administration experience, like delegating administration to specific set of users/groups instead of delegating full Azure

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Exchange Online – Get notified when users report Junk/Phishing emails

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If you are using Exchange Online, you may already know the ‘Report message’ add-in to report junk or phishing emails But as an administrator, do you know where to get these reports, and do you know you can also get notified? I’m sure not, so here it is: Access Users Reported Message first, you can

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OneDrive for Business – Self service OdB recovery

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It has been announced some time ago, and now this is starting to be rolled out. If you need to recover your OneDrive for Business space from a previous state, you will have the ability to do it your self by executing the following steps. NOTE this does not replace the recycle bin for deleted

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Azure – Direct access to Azure Shell on the browser

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As you may know, Microsoft has added access to Azure Shell (either PowerShell or Bash) directly from the portal; giving you the possibility to run shell commands directly from the web browser (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/09/27/azure-powershell-in-azure-cloud-shell-now-in-preview/) Now, you can have access to the same without logging on to the Azure portal – just go to https://shell.azure.com/ If

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Azure AD – Pass-Through authentication account lockout

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When you use Azure AD Pass-Through authentication, your users are getting authenticated against your on-premises Active Directory when accessing cloud services (same way if you were using Federation, except this requires less infrastructure). So, knowing that (you are authenticating against your on-premises AD), what happen if an attacker is trying to gain access to your

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Skype for Business / Teams – New Skype for Business network assessment tool

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The Skype for Business network assessment tool has been updated (version 2017.1.0.51) and is now taking into account Microsoft Teams in addition of Skype for Business. You can download the updated network assessment from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53885 Once installed, there is no shortcuts whatsoever; you need to browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Skype for Business Network Assessment Tool

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